The Takács Quartet with Muzsikás and special guest Marta Sebestyén

Bartók and Folkmusic

Led by the legendary Hungarian vocalist Marta Sebestyén, Hungary’s most celebrated folk ensemble, Muzsikás joins the world renowned Takacs Quartet in a rollicking exploration of the gypsy roots in Bartók’s music. As leading purveyors of Hungary’s wildly popular tanchez (“dance house”) movement and foremost interpreters of traditional eastern European folk music, Muzsikás has captured its country’s spirit of renewed national pride and elation. One of the world’s leading string quartets, the Takács Quartet has embodied the central European quartet tradition and is closely identified with the works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Bartók. “The Takács have the ability to make you believe that there’s no other possible way the music should go, and the strength to overturn preconceptions that comes only with the greatest performers” [Gramophone].

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